[Willie Green]

Crappy little cars are another good reason to ride the train instead.

[Kozak]

Yeah, right after we repeal the laws of Thermodynamics and Monkeys fly out of my a@@....

[DManA]

That wouldn’t be an auto. That would be a kiddy car.

[taxcontrol]

How many are going to die because of the engineering trade offs to get the weight down to where it can get this kind of milage?

[GreenAccord]

In a related bill, Obama approves the 2,580 foot mile, to be used in all 57 states.

[ctdonath2]

Train? From where to where?

How about not sacrificing safety for milage?

[bt579]

Im going to be keeping my SUV for a Long.LONG Time

[FlingWingFlyer]

Hey Ray!!! Why not 86.7 MPG!!! LOL! Doofus!

Just say NO to drugs!

[B Knotts]

An interesting question is: when will the government start imposing fuel economy regulations on trains? Or airplanes?

[tal hajus]

“And if you have a head on collision with St. Bernard you lose”... thanks Bill Cosby.

[mountainlion]

An early VW wagon could get 65 MPG so big deal. The Mobile economy run had cars get regularly over 1000 MPG. I get less than 14 MPG in my 2007 Serra and I am not complaining. My complaints are that the Government takes money on a gas tax to “fix the roads” and use it for anything else. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. We are exiting the corrupt state and entering the absolute phase.

[Doogle]

.....as GM announces today they plan to revive full size tahoes and and full size pick ups......IN FRANCE.

[Spok]

Politicians love laws like this, so they can start selling extensions, exemptions, etc. The more onerous the law, the more corruptible and profitable it becomes.

[reagan_fanatic]

Prototype:

[antiRepublicrat]

Turbo common rail injection diesel. A VW Jetta diesel already gets about 30/40 mpg, and many hybrids don’t do much better than that.

[Petruchio]

"Crappy little cars are another good reason to ride the train instead."

This is now another

Willie Green Happy Choo-Choo thread.

Promoting 19th Century technology for the 21st Century.

[John S Mosby]

Sure, I’ll take a train downtown, then to the grocery store then to my farm which is 125 miles from any town. Better yet I’ll just stop trying. This edict is sheer fantasy. 47-62 mpg driving what? A foot powered flywheel 2 cylinder cyclemobile? Oh, that’s right, the VOLT!! And, uh trains cannot compete with that kind of mileage if it was even achievable. You might want to rethink your train argument. Cause trains need cars to be inefficient to make the claim.
Relates well to previous threads. There will be ground travelers and air travelers. I’ll be the latter.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Crappy little cars are another good reason to ride the train instead.

Not if the Metropolitan Transportation Districts are run as reparations, and the affirmative-actioned MSD bureaucrats allowed to loot and steal just because of the color of their skin.

[GenXteacher]

Might as well mandate 1000 mpg. The internal combustion engine is probably nearing its limits as far as what’s technically feasible now. Notice that is feasible, not profitable or useful.

[equalitybeforethelaw]

So we will all be driving motorcycles and scooters? Great. Where do I put the groceries?

[Personal Responsibility]

Why not 1000 MPG?

Seriously, with this line of thinking why didn’t they just legislate safe, room temperature fusion into existence?